Kayzad Vanskuiwalla is the Co-Founder at AiStrike, where he leads the strategic direction of product development with a focus on cloud security operations, leveraging machine learning and AI for proactive cloud threat exposure, investigation, and response.
Career-committed with a strong emphasis on accountability, he builds programs on Cyber Threat Detection and Analytics with a core focus on Insider and Cloud Threats for Fortune 500 organizations. He is proficient in managing stakeholder expectations, fine-tuning alerts, and developing new cyber threat kill-chains/models to proactively detect and prioritize incidents.
With over 9 years at Securonix, Kayzad rose to Sr. Director of Threat Detection and Response, where he built and enabled a team of over 30 professionals globally comprising SIEM and DevOps Engineers and Threat Hunters. He spearheaded the adoption of MITRE ATT&CK frameworks for threat detection and gap analysis.
He has extensive experience across verticals including Energy, Global Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail, Cloud Platforms, and Government agencies.
- AiStrike — Co-Founder: August 2023 – Present
- Securonix — Sr. Director, Threat Detection and Response: April 2020 – August 2023
- Securonix — Principal Threat Hunter, Cyber Threat Analytics: January 2016 – March 2020
- Securonix — Team Lead & Security Analyst: July 2014 – January 2016
- iSIGHT Partners — Vulnerability Intelligence Analyst: June 2013 – May 2014
- Deloitte — Intern, Enterprise Risk Services: June 2011 – July 2011
- Start-up Leadership
- Product Management
- Program Management
- Certifications: eJPT, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Microsoft Cloud Attack and Defense Bootcamp
- Focus Areas: Access Analytics, Physical Security, Network Traffic Analytics, Privilege Identity Monitoring, Data Loss Prevention, Financial Fraud, Advanced Persistent Threat, Cyber Threat Analytics, Cloud Controls and Security
